The "kidnapping case" that occurred at the Fengxin County Government was not noticed by the Japanese army until ten minutes later. When Daojing Village and a dozen of his men walked into the temporary headquarters, the other Japanese in the county government office building did not know at all.
They knew that their commander had been kidnapped. The first person Fei sensed was that something was wrong was a second lieutenant under Dao. With his keen sense of smell, he smelled a trace of blood in the air. He asked Dao to hold off and follow the smell of blood to find him.
, found the two gendarmes hidden behind the locker.
The two military policemen were already dead, and one of them had his brains flowing out, which looked particularly terrifying. Seeing this scene, Dao Jingcun almost instinctively shouted: "No!" and then rushed into the basement.
He was so nervous that he actually rolled down the stairs without stepping on one foot. What made him break out in a cold sweat afterwards was that he rolled down the stairs and there was a loud "boom", and the wood fell.
The staircase he made suddenly exploded. Not only the three men walking on it were all killed, but a few people outside were also seriously injured.
The explosion alerted other Japs in the building, who all rushed out and nervously asked what happened.
Dao, who fell to the ground, was so frightened that he almost peed all over the ground again, "Booby trap?! Ba Ge, it must be someone from Langya!" He suddenly thought of this, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy. He got up and didn't bother to check.
With injuries on his body, he found the pistol and held it tightly in his hand. He shouted: "Your Excellency, Commander, Your Excellency!" and then walked in cautiously.
There was a major lying on the ground in the basement. Just by looking at the large pool of blood under his neck, you knew that this man had expired. When he saw him, Dao was startled and almost pulled the trigger. The space in the basement was not very big.
, after all, this is just a small air-raid shelter that provides air defense for the county magistrate and others. The desk in the distance is in a mess, and many telegrams and other things are scattered everywhere, as if they have experienced a fierce fight - Dao Xun's
After scanning the entire basement, Okamura Neiji was not found. His legs went weak and he almost sat on the ground. The next moment, he shouted nervously: "Sound the alarm, be on alert, be on alert for the whole city!"
"Hate! Hate..." The whistle blew, and the next moment, chaos broke out inside and outside the Fengxin County Government Building.
Yoshimoto Teiji was walking to the gate of the county government surrounded by more than a dozen Japanese soldiers. When he heard the explosion, he was heartbroken and ran over without thinking. When he saw a few soldiers blowing their whistles hard at the door, he immediately
Asked loudly: "What happened?"
"We don't know either. This is His Excellency Dao's order."
"Where is Mr. Dao?"
"He was in the basement, and the stairs to the basement were blown up."
"Ah? Where is your Excellency, Commander?"
"I don't know, we, we haven't seen it."
Gibbon's expression changed immediately.
As soon as the whistle blew, all the nearby Japanese soldiers became commotion. The brigade captains and unit captains came over with their men one after another to ask what happened. At this time, Daojing Village in the basement finally calmed down.
The situation couldn't be more clear. Okamura Neiji should have been kidnapped by the cadet army. A group commander of the Imperial Japanese Army was actually kidnapped by the enemy in his own headquarters. It seems incredible, but once
Thinking of the battle he encountered on the south bank of the Jinjiang River, and thinking that it was just a regular force of the Xuebing Army, Dao felt that there seemed to be nothing to make a fuss about - "Langya, it must be the Langya of the Xuebing Army!" He said
He murmured to himself and suddenly felt a cold feeling on his body.
"Your Excellency, the Chief of Staff is here!" One of his men suddenly shouted from above.
"Get me up first, and the two of you will come down!"
A few minutes later, Shima Jingcun stepped on the shoulders of the two Japanese soldiers with great effort and got out of the basement with the help of his subordinates. When he met Yoshimoto Sadaji's eyes, he winked and pulled the latter to a room next to him.
All the houses had been searched by the military police, and the corpses had been cleared away. They had even found the path Lu Zhibai and the others took to evacuate, and a team of military police followed the trail.
"The commander may have been kidnapped by the Chinese," Dao Jingcun said straight to the point.
After entering the headquarters and not seeing Okamura Neji, Yoshimoto Sadji realized something was wrong. But when he thought that this place was heavily guarded, he was more worried about whether Okamura Neji would be assassinated or injured. At this time, he heard
When Dao said this, his eyes immediately opened wide and he asked in an unbelievable tone: "What did you say? Commander - how is that possible?!" He became excited, turned around and was about to run towards the basement.
Dao grabbed him and said, "We have searched the area around the headquarters and found no trace of the commander."
Just like a plate of cold water was poured on his head, Yoshimoto Seiji stood there stupidly. After standing there stupidly for more than ten seconds, he suddenly shouted: "Then why don't you send someone to chase them? They can't escape far!" As he said,
After breaking free from Dao's hand, I wanted to personally support this matter.
What Dao said next made him give up this idea: "What if we catch them? If they threaten the commander's life, what will we do?"
"But, just let them go?"
"Yoshimoto-kun, calm down and think about it carefully. If Ouyang Yun really just wants to harm the commander, does he need to go to such great lengths to kidnap the commander? I think that if Ouyang Yun does this, he should discuss it with the city.
It’s related to the Chinese people!”
"You mean, they want to exchange the commander for the Chinese civilians in the city?"
"Yes."
"If this is the case, we will have no choice. But what if Ouyang Yun regrets it later? He can blackmail us into letting him go first."
"Yoshimoto-kun, we have actually lost this battle, so the commander must be fine. You should know that His Majesty the Emperor values the commander very much——"
"I know, it is precisely because of this reason that I feel particularly passive."
"It's true that the Commander is our weakness, but don't forget, we also have Ouyang Yun's weakness. If he really wants to exchange for the Chinese people in the city, then he will definitely not dare to play tricks, and we can ask for a higher price.
Some. Of course, who will benefit in the end depends on which party can stick to its bottom line better. In this case, Yoshimoto-kun, we must do the opposite."
"What's the meaning?"
"We have to pretend we don't care."
"But what if Ouyang Yun really kills the commander because of this?"
"It is possible, but we have no other choice. Yoshimoto-kun, can't you see it yet? The weapons and military strength of the Chinese are now far superior to ours. Without the Chinese in the city, the defeat of our army is only a matter of time.
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Gibbon thought for a while and said: "Then do as you say."